Kolkata: A day after CM Suvendu Adhikari on Monday warned against child marriage, the husband of a minor girl was arrested under the Pocso Act after she gave birth to a child on Tuesday.The husband was produced before a city court that remanded him in judicial custody till Sept 22.Cops from the Shyampukur PS arrested…
Margao: Former state Congress president Amit Patkar on Tuesday announced that a massive anti-drug awareness campaign will be launched in Curchorem soon after Ganesh Chaturthi.Patkar said that the town had turned into Goa’s “drugs capital” and said that the local MLA, BJP govt and the chief minister are responsible for Curchorem’s decline into the state’s…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court has quashed an FIR for abetment to sexual harassment against a businessman who allegedly did not pay heed to a woman’s complaint regarding molestation by another accused, and instead told her that she would have to succumb to inappropriate demands of she wanted to grow in business.While quashing the FIR, HC…
On the March: Tibetan activist Tsering Tharchin interacts with students at Panjab University during his Dharamshala-to-Delhi ‘Rangzen Yatra’ to raise awareness about Tibet, Himalayan ecology and regional security concerns On the March: Tibetan activist Tsering Tharchin interacts with students at Panjab University during his Dharamshala-to-Delhi ‘Rangzen Yatra’ to raise awareness about Tibet, Himalayan ecology and…
The new facility is also expected to help scientists study magnetic fields in space. Pune: Researchers will now have easier long-term access to a massive dataset collected by Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, after Germany’s Deutsches Zentrum für Astrophysik created a mirror of data from the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey from MeerKAT radio…
Silchar: A three-and-a-half-year-old boy missing since Monday was found dead in the Rukni river on Tuesday.Fuzayel Ahmed, the only son of Khaspur resident Shamsuddin, was found floating near Islamabad around 8 am, about 1.5 km from his home, police said.Dholai police recovered the body and sent it to Silchar Medical College and Hospital for an…
Lucknow: A 57-year-old sub-inspector was killed after a speeding truck ran him over while he was on Dol Mela duty in Kushinagar district on Monday night, police said. The incident occurred near Saraswati Chowk on the Padrauna bypass, where sub-inspector Bhavani Pandey, posted at Sevarahi police station, had been deployed to handle security and traffic…
Jaipur: Vocational education teachers in Rajasthan govt schools Tuesday threatened to boycott upcoming municipal and panchayat elections over salaries pending for more than a year and their demand for a permanent service policy.Vyavsayik Prashikshak Sangharsh Samiti, representing vocational teachers, wrote to Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma on Sept 7, seeking immediate clearance of overdue wages…
Sri Lanka a close friend, India stands by it: Rajnath Singh Defence minister Rajnath Singh said in Colombo Tuesday that India and Sri Lanka are close friends and India will always stand firmly with Sri Lanka whenever the island nation faces a crisis.Singh, who is on a three-day visit to Sri Lanka, has become the…
Iranian tankers near Kharg Island Donald Trump‘s fury toward Iran continued on Tuesday as the US launched an attack targeting multiple Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf.Trump’s forces in the Middle East, the US Central Command, released satellite video showing the destruction of Iranian crude oil carriers on September 8.However, Iran’s…
